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best mode of treatment P By so doing, through the medium of your next number 

 of the Cabinet, you will much oblige A Gaudener. 



Cheshire, October 10. 



P.S. I have a fine plant of Goldfussia glomerata, but it does not show auy 

 signs of flowering. Is it worth room, or likely to flower soon ? I have had it 

 two years. 



[The G. glomerata is a very pretty flowering plant; the flowers are purple; 

 it is a Ruellia-like plant. Let the plant have a season of rest in a cooler tempe- 

 rature, till the midule of March, and at the same time only water to keep the 

 soil barely moist. Repot at the time named, and put in the usual stove tempe 

 ratnre, giving it other due attention, and it usually blooms freely. The Gesneria 

 ought not to lack water at the roots, nor be near to the dry scorching heat of 

 the flue ; perhaps the temperature where it is kr pt is too hii;h. We have seen 

 fine plants in profuse bloom in a warm greenhouse. Try different situations, 

 along with regular due attention. The ends of shoots, having flower heads 

 formed, cut oft close under a joint, and inseited singly into small-sized pots, and 

 placed in moist heat, soon take root ; and afterwards repotted, if required, into 

 a size larger, form beautiful flowering dwarf specimens. It is a fine plant for 

 winter ornament; may be had in bloom the entire thereof. — Conductor ] 



On Rhodanthe Manglesii. — A Subscriber will be very glad to know, from 

 any one who has grown Rhodanthe Macglesii successfully, the mode of culture, 

 and the soil in which it should be grown to flourish. 



On Sweet-scented Pelargoniums. — 1 am desirous of procuring some of the 

 fragrant-leaved Pelargoniums, and shall be obliged by the names of a few sorts 

 of that class. Juvenis. 



[Oak-leaved, Fair Ellen, Rose Scented, Balm Scented, Prince of Orange, 

 Emily, Citron Scented, and Bagshot Park.] 



On Guano. — In a late number of the " Gardener's Chronicle" it is recom- 

 mended to. apply 3 cwt. to one acre. Reducing that to the size of my vine 

 border, or conservatory border, i. e., the border into which the roots of my vines, 

 &c„ run, and in which they are planted, it will take two pounds of Guano, which 

 I would powder and sift, and with an equal quantity (or three times as much) 

 of sifted loam, I would sow over the border, taking care to do so very equally. 

 I will feel very much obliged if some correspondent will, as early as may be 

 fviz., in your next number), inform me at what period I should apply this 

 Guano. Secondly, how often to be repeated. Thirdly, how often should 1 

 apply liquid manure to plants in pots or to a flower-border ? Plants in pots, in 

 a greenhouse, will require water frequently. Are they to be always watered 

 with liquid manure (Guano in water), or how often ? Flower-borders may re- 

 quire no watering if there be rain ; but, notwithstanding, how often will it do 

 them good to have a little Guano-water ? Fourthly, which is the best, Potter's 

 or Peruvian Guano ? Buhhiensis. 



On Manure, &c, fou Flower Borders. — I will thank you to inform me in 

 your next valuable miscellany, what you consider as the best dressing for the 

 common flower borders. Whether salt can be applied with advantage, if so. the 

 quantity to use most proper, or whatever you may consider as the best ingredient 

 at the period of forking over the borders. Q. 



January 6th. 



* # * My garden is a light dry soil with a gravelly bottom. 



[A free addition of fie>h loam with a moderate mixture of well rotted leaf 

 mould or well rotted hot-bed dung, if of cow-dung, is the best application that 

 can be jjiven. We have found the plants to grow freely and bloom much more 

 profusely, than when a greater quantity of rotten dung was given and no freslt 

 loam. When an addition of this dressing would raise a bed or border too high 

 to retain the old soil, we had some of the latter removed in due proportion. 

 We nevei tried salt, and we think it would not answer. Guano is s| okea of as 

 being beneficial.— Conductor.] 



